Weiss Kreuz Fan Fiction ❯ Don't Cry ❯ And don't you cry tonight ( Chapter 12 )

Don't Cry

By: Anna Hibiki

Rating: NC-17.

Disclaimers : Weiss is not mine! It belongs to Koyasu-sama and other people with much more money than me (even if I want to own SchuSchu... and KenKen... and Yo-tan... and Brad-chan... and RanRan... well I want to own 'em all! ). The song 'Don't Cry' belongs to Guns N' Roses, and I don't own it either nor own Guns N' Roses.

Warnings : Shounen-ai/Yaoi, OCC, angst, torture, lemon in this chappie, kawaii Crawford. If you don't like that, then you can go to read my other fics or search for others you prefer.

Notes : Anything written in Italic are thoughts. Things /written this way/ are mental talk.

This fic can be read in my page, mediaminer.org and ff.net.

Now I wanna thank all the reviewers. Todou Higiri (arigato for reviewing!! *glomps* Well you already got the chapters so now I just have to wait for ya to send them.), Mara-chan (well, thank u for your two reviews! *glomps* I'm glad you like the fic and will make sure there are more BradFarfie moments *loves Brad-chan and Farfie* hope ya like this chapter!), Silent Cherub (well, and what can I say to you? Of course, arigato gozaimasu for reviewing!! *glomps* *nods and sighs* guess the sex is gonna have to wait a little, but I'll try to update that part when I post next chapter. Yeah, Schu ends up having sex with Brad cuz he doesn't talk to him, but… guess he'd rather fuck than having to tell Brad that he's heartbroken because the one he loves, that is, KenKen, hates him because well, he's just his mortal enemy. *evil grin* Well, you'll see how Brad reacts. The BradFarfie… Farfie it's kawaii himself! So if you put together a kawaii sleepy Farfie and an angry/jealous/worried Brad… I agree that Aya's reactions were somewhat understandable, but I just love to torture him. I prefer Youji all normal again, just have to hope he doesn't go all crazy again!! Ne, you know I don't mind you write long reviews! And well, the finished picture disappeared with all the data of my computer, so I'll have to scan it again when I finish with a manga for yaoi-con *grins* but don't worry, it'll be up someday. 'Bout your fic, ya know, when it's done tell me. And yeah, I noticed there was no S.C. at the end of the review, but didn't thought mm.org had cut it *sends Farfie to stab them*! Well, just hope you liked this chapter!! And again thank u! I thanked you for the support on the email, but I thank u again!! *glomps*), Nekocin (arigato for reviewing!! *glomps* well, I'm trying to write more correctly lately, dunno if it's working or not anyway. Aya.. Omi's being very mean to him, and still don't know what's gonna happen to him! Ken loves Youji, that for sure. *grins evilly* Brad… you'll see on this chapter and the following ones that he's very curious… and poor Schu, that only can have Ken on his dreams… I'm ashamed this took me so long to update, but hope it's compensated with such a long chapter! And of course, I take note of your suggestions! *looks at Aya and Brad and starts to make perverse plans*. Again, arigato!! ^^), Cocos (As with everyone else, thank you for reviewing. I sent you an email long ago replying to your review because it would be too long to answer it in here, but anyway there is something I want EVERYBODY who reads to have it very clear. Schuldig is a whore, and a whore is used to the clients to be more or less rough. And because today a client is rough with a whore [be it a man or a woman, that doesn't matter], they don't stop working the next day. What I mean is that Schu's used to that because he's been Takatori's whore for years. I don't think it's ridiculous or that I should change it, and everyone's free to think what they want and if you think I've treated the issue with no sensitivity, I respect your opinion, but I have my own one on that.), Voidsenshi (oii!! Arigato for reviewing!! *glomps* Glad you liked it! Here you have another long chapter! *waves ominagi's flags too* our poor SchuSchu's gonna suffer a little more… but hehe you can continue threatening me all you want cuz I've hired Farfie to protect me!! He makes one feel SO safe!! *laughs hysterically* Again arigato!! ^^), MeefMonster (arigato for reviewing!! *glomps* hope ya like this chapter!), UMMM (arigato for reviewing! *glomps* *sighs* I really am sorry for all my grammar and spelling mistakes. I try to pay as much attention as I can to that, but it's very simple, if I don't know I've made a mistake [or don't know how to correct it] I can't do more than I do. Anyway, I put a bigger effort on this chapter and hope it's better than the previous ones. Hope ya like this chapter!! ^^ 'bout my page… I took all the fics down when I changed the layout but my computer died before I could ever put them up, so it's not only you, it's that I have to put all the files into my computer again and put everything in order before I upload them. *hangs head in shame*),

I also want to thank the more than 200 people who reads every chapter (at least that's what mediaminer.org says), I never thought this would reach 1000 visits but it's VERY near! *smiles from ear to ear* And well, I've decided that if it ever reaches the 50 reviews (if we count the 20something it had before ff.net deleted it, it would have) I'll be writing a gift fic or drawing something for that person. It won't be anything big, just a little way to say thank u.

Chapter 12: And don't you cry tonight.

"Ken?" Schuldig blinked again and opened his mouth, but nothing came out. Brad sat on the bed and planted a hand next to the redhead's face. "Who's Ken?"

"K-Ken? I... I don't know anyone with that nam-"

Brad lifted an eyebrow. "Really?" he asked coldly, "How is it you say his name if you don't know a Ken?"

"I-"

"Don't waste your time, I don't believe you. I should have seen it coming, don't you think?" he rose to his feet and began to get dressed, acting like he was alone in the room.

"Brad, I.."

There was a moment of silence, then Brad sighed. "You've been playing with me all this time."

"NO!"

"You know, I haven't been taking care of you as a hobby, I'm human." He said as he finished buttoning his shirt.

"But Brad-"

"Shut up." The American cut him.

Schuldig didn't dare talk at that moment. NOW he had fucked everything up. He had said Ken's name in the worst moment possible! But he... he couldn't help it. Even if he had tried to put Ken aside for a few minutes, he was too used to think of him, so used to checking on him that his mind picked Ken's in every moment even if he didn't want to.

And when he received that feeling of love from Ken, even if it was directed to Balinese, he couldn't help it. He just couldn't.

And now... In just a moment, for a little (well, a really fucking BIG) slip, he had lost the last thing he had left.

What was he going to do now that Brad was angry? It was his entire fault. Everything was his fault.

And he could do nothing to remedy it. He had lost Brad. It's all he could think about as the older man left the room and closed the door quietly.

Schuldig covered his head with the pillow. He felt dirtier than ever, so dirty that he ignored the physical pain.

But he was so tired that he fell asleep soon, and perhaps it was the guilt he felt, or just the tiredness all over his body and mind, the fact is that he didn't dream that night.

.::.::.::.::.

Brad sat at his desk in his bedroom and turned his computer on. He got into the net and into Estet archives. He typed the word 'Ken' and left the computer to perform the search.

Meanwhile he went to take a much-needed shower.

When he came back to his room a few minutes later clad in his comfortable pajamas, he sat in front of the computer again and took a look at the results of the search.

There were five people whose names contained 'Ken'. Each name was accompanied by a picture of the person and a link to their biographies.

"Let's see... what do we have here?"

Yamaguchi Ken. Age: 79... I don't think Schuldig loves this old man. The following one... Urashima Ken. Age 31. This one's an executive.. He's ugly! Not Schuldig's type. But it's not that I know his tastes.. Well, the next one.. He scrubbed his eyes tiredly.Hidaka Ken. Age: 19. Wait. "Oh God.." Tha-that's Weiss! Even if he's cute, Schu loving him is absolutely out of the question. Now comes Yuki Ken. Age: 44. This one has money... Interesting... Ueda Ken. Age: 12. Is he some kind of paedophile?!

The truth is that none of the possibilities convinced him. But it could happen that Schuldig's 'Ken' wasn't in the archives. He knew a lot of people, and obviously not all of them where there.

Brad saved the results of the search (you never know when you might need them) and turned the computer off. Well, now I know that they're not, but I have to find who it is. Have to discover who's taken him away from me.. Who can be better than I am? It was the last thing he thought before he took a pill and went to bed.

.::.::.::.::.

Youji shut his eyes tightly and reached with his hand looking for Ken, but he was alone in the bed again.

But he didn't care. He was happy. Why wouldn't he be happy now that Ken had given him another chance? There were no words to explain how he felt inside when he noticed that Ken was there on the bed with him.

But he had realized one thing, he couldn't lose Ken. No matter what he had been thinking the day before, he loved the brunette and was going to change whatever he had to change to keep him. He was going to show his lover that he would give anything for him.

He took a pair of jeans and a black shirt from his closet and put them on. He decided against putting on his black boots and decided for the old slippers Ken gave him a few years ago as a birthday gift. Since he wasn't planning to go out, he preferred to be comfortable.

To finish getting ready, he raked his fingers through his hair and tied it in a low ponytail. Then he brought his fingers to his face and frowned at the beard that was starting to appear. But he would shave his face and take a shower later; he didn't want to erase the feeling of Ken's body against his and had more important things to do at the moment.

The blonde left his room and went to the bathroom where he washed his face before he went downstairs.

It was only half past nine, so the others were probably having breakfast. He stopped at the kitchen's closed door and took a deep breath, trying to slow the beating of his heart.

He was ridiculous! A grown man scared of entering a room where his teammates and lover were having breakfast.

He put on his sleepy grin as he opened the door and looked at the scene.

Ken was giving his back to him, serving breakfast to Aya, who was looking angrier than usual. Omi looked serious too, and had two dishes and two glasses on a tray, so he guessed the chibi was waiting to have breakfast with the Schwarz brat.

"Guddo mooruningu~" he sang in a horribly accented English.

Omi flashed him a bright smile "Ohayo Youji-kun!" he said happily, but the moment he looked away and his eyes took sight of Aya, the smile disappeared to form a scowl.

"Mornin' baby.." he whispered wrapping his arms around Ken's torso and kissing his cheek softly. He had intended to kiss him on the lips, but he couldn't go so fast yet, not in front of the others.

Youji just hoped that Ken understood him.

Ken was so surprised that he threw the glass and the dish he was holding. The dish spilled the food over the table, but the glass fell to the floor and shattered to pieces, luckily it didn't cut anyone.

"Youji-kun!!" Omi glared at him.

Youji unwrapped his arms as easily as he had wrapped but rested his chin on Ken's shoulder for a moment. "Daijobu?" he said softly.

Ken blushed and opened his mouth "D-d-da-joobu".

"Youji-kun! Stop embarrassing Ken-kun!!" Omi yelled at him again.

Youji sat next to him and looked at him questioningly. "Nani?"

"We'll talk later." The smaller blonde hissed.

"That reminds me that you gave something to explain." He said suddenly serious.

"I'm going upstairs to have breakfast with Nagi-kun, you can ask Ken-kun." He said as he took the tray and got up.

"But you and I are talking later anyway."

"Yes, whatever.." he said as he hurried out of the room, trying not to drop anything.

When he was sure that Omi wasn't anywhere near and wouldn't hear them he faced the fuming redhead. "Chibi's angry at you."

Aya took a sip of his coffee, ignoring him.

"Well, you can continue ignoring me if you want to, I don't care about that, but the kid's mad at you, and he has a reason. And I don't think you want him to hate you, or am I wrong?"

The redhead raised his eyes to look at him, his omnipresent glare of death trying to bore into the playboy's green eyes. Only then he noticed that Aya looked like he hadn't slept last night. "Mind your own business." He said hoarsely. If he had looked at Ken or pointed towards him with a wand ala Harry Potter it wouldn't have been as obvious as he had done it with only four words.

Once he said that, and before his teammate could even reply, he got up and left the room, leaving his dishes on the table for them to clean.

Ken was sitting next to Youji, not caring about the broken glass yet, just wanting to eat quietly and trying to forget about any problem or preoccupation.

He would deal with his lover later, he would do whatever he had to do without any complain, but right then, those first minutes of the day, he wanted some calm, especially after all the things that happened the previous night, starting with his problems with Youji, Omi's shock when he discovered that Aya was trying to kill his friend (and he was sure that soon-to-be boyfriend), and of course he couldn't forget the weird things that the German psycho had been doing.

Why was it so hard to live?

.::.::.::.::.

Nagi sat up and lifted his chin a little to look at the older boy. "Ohayo Omi.." he greeted softly.

"Nagi-kun! Ohayo… How are you feeling? Does it hurt too much?"

"I'm doing better, but it still hurts a little."

since when are you up? I was going to wake you up, Ken-kun made breakfast for you too! Hope you like it, the truth is that he can't cook, but I wasn't going to ask Aya-kun to do it," his smile weakened at the mention of the redhead's name "Youji-kun was sleeping and I couldn't distract myself, who knows what Abyssinian would have done if I weren't there!"

"Omi-" Nagi tried to talk as the blonde boy placed the tray on his lap.

"But don't worry! Ken-kun and I've been talking, and well, I think that Youji-kun will help too, and we're going to keep him away from you, and you won't have to worry again about him trying to kill you. And after Schuldig told him about paying us for taking care of you…" He took a sip at his cocoa and Nagi did the same. "You know, I think that he would even smile if someone gave him enough money for doing it. Speaking of Schuldig, he said he would come today to bring all the things you left at home."

"Yeah…" he ate the cereals quietly.

"Nagi-kun?"

"Nani?"

Suddenly, Omi hugged him tightly. "I… I'm so glad you're okay!! I-if Aya had killed you… I don't know what I-"

Nagi returned the hug with the only arm he could. "It's okay Omi, don't worr- auch!"

Omi broke the embrace quickly, blushing bright red. "Gomen ne! I forgot about the wound and-"

"Daijobu.." the other boy calmed him.

There was an uncomfortable silence afterwards. Not having anything better to say to break it, Omi lowered his voice to a whisper. "Don't you think Schuldig's a little weird?"

Nagi blinked in surprise. "Nani?"

"I mean.. He was acting all nice with you and me, and he looked at Ken-kun in a weird way, I'd even say he looked sad. But when he looked at Aya-kun he acted all arrogant and Schwarz-like."

The younger boy shrugged. "He's like that. Schwarz has its secrets after all."

His friend understood that he didn't want to talk about that matter so he changed the topic quickly.

"Ken-kun says that we can tell him what movie we want to see and he'll go to pick it later! We can have some popcorn too! What movie do you want to see?" he asked as he gathered everything into the tray and placed it on the floor.

Nagi shrugged. "Don't know… as long as it's not a 'silly high school boy meets silly high school girl and silly high school boy tries to get into her pants but she doesn't want him until at the end of the film he finds and even sillier but gorgeous and gigantic-breasted high school girl that will fall for him and then the silly high school girl from before will understand that the one she loves is the stupid high school boy that now is with the cute chick that will end with the clumsy and ugly guy so the silly boy and the silly girl can be together at the end to finish the film with a false and badly done kiss' kind of film, I think I won't complain." He said casually.

Omi gaped. "Guess it'll be better if he picks a classic, uh?"

"Yeah."

.::.::.::.::.

Aya silently put his ear away from Omi's door and wandered towards his bedroom. He felt broken after what all he had heard the boy say about him.

He put on his jacket and took his car keys.

He needed to see Aya-chan, urgently.

.::.::.::.::.

"Your coffee isn't going to taste better just because you keep on poking it with a knife KenKen." There was slight amusement in his voice.

"Nani?" Ken looked up at Youji. Looks like I've been thinking for a while… He tried to drink it, but it was cold, and he didn't like cold coffee.

"You really are distracted today.." the blonde said leaning forward to press against his lips the kiss he couldn't before.

Ken closed his eyes and enjoyed the contact and the happiness his lover was irradiating that morning. When was the last time Yo-tan had been so happy? He wrapped his arms around the blonde's neck, moving to sit on his lap, eagerly returning that kiss. "Youji…" he whispered against his neck when they broke the kiss, his head resting on his shoulder.

"Nani?"

"You have to promise me."

"Promise what?"

The brunette tightened his arms around his body like he wanted to melt with him. "That you're not doing it again. I can't continue like this."

Youji was silent as he gave him a small kiss on the forehead.

"Promise me."

"I promise." He said louder, holding Ken's face in place to look into his eyes. "Just give me some time.. Will you?"

Ken didn't answer, but he kissed him softly.

"Ne, KenKen, what are you gonna do today?"

The ex-soccer player sighed happily when his lover's hands came to rest again on his lower back. "I have to open the flower shop and do the whole morning turn." He tried to remember anything else he had to do. "And go pick a movie for Omi and the Schwarz brat."

"Really? And which movie are you gonna pick?"

"Dunno. The one they wan-"

"I can go get it with you, and we could watch it with them, the DVD player's on the mission room, and there's plenty of space for the four of us."

"So you're gonna stay here with me today?" Ken asked with a hint of hope on his voice.

"I promised."

Ken smile widened. "You better do it!"

Youji grinned and grabbed the brunette's hips, hauling him up and sitting him on the table as he rose to his feet. "Don't worry 'bout that, I'll take a shower and put on some nice clothes and when you finish your turn we can go eat somewhere and come back with the movie. What do you think?"

"That'd be nice." He said softly and kissed him again.

Youji ruffled his hair and left the kitchen, leaving Ken to clean up. Ken planted his bare feet on the floor and had to bite his lip not to scream.

Yeah, his right foot had just landed on the broken glass. "K'sooooo!!" He grabbed his injured foot and tried to get the pieces of glass out of his skin, the only result was he falling onto his ass on the floor, luckily he didn't fall on the broken glass again. "And now I'm bleeding…"

.::.::.::.::.

Schuldig finished getting dressed and left his bedroom. He went to the bathroom before he went downstairs. Should he go to the kitchen now that the others were there or would it be better if he had breakfast outside?

How was he going to face Brad?

The truth is that he was scared shitless. How would Brad treat him from now on? He knew that the American had all the right to be mad at him, not only that, he deserved to be hated by him.

Because he knew that if there was something Brad hated, it was not knowing the truth of things. And when it came to him, Brad only knew what he showed (or saw in his visions, but that didn't happen very often), and he lied most of the time.

He wondered if Brad would try to know who Ken was. He really hoped he wouldn't.

Finally, he decided he couldn't hide forever so he entered the kitchen.

He froze when Brad looked up at him from the newspaper he was reading and placed a folder on the table. "We have a mission tonight, be ready at eight o'clock." He said calmly.

Schuldig took the folder and opened it, releasing a breath he hadn't noticed he was holding. The moment the redhead touched the file, Brad's eyes got wide and absent.

He was having one of his visions. It was a dark place, it looked like an office, he couldn't tell why, but it looked strangely familiar. He looked around, but it was too dark to see anything else that would help him identify the place.

It was then when he saw Schuldig. He was kneeling on the floor and was holding desperately onto someone he couldn't see. He wanted to see more, but the vision abandoned him.

Brad blinked to focus his eyes and came back to reality.

When he looked at Schuldig again, he saw him sitting at the table, drinking coffee quietly. Who was that person he was embracing with so much need?

He was startled when a ball of cereals impacted against the redhead's cheek. Schuldig should be as surprised as he was because he blinked four times before he reached with a napkin to clean his face. "What was that for, Farfie?" he finally said, still scrubbing at his face to erase the nasty feeling of cold milk and sugared cereals.

Farfello glared at him. "God's happy. He's been dancing and singing the whole night, and his laughs gave me a headache."

The redhead glared back. "Oh.. And just because your stupid god's happy you have the right to throw that sugary shit at me?"

"Absolutely."

Crawford had to cut their fight before it started.

He was still wondering what did that vision mean.

.::.::.::.::.

Ken sat on the counter. The flower shop was empty and there hadn't been many customers that morning, so he was rather bored.

The only thing that distracted him was the pain on his foot. He had gotten out all the bigger pieces of broken glass, but there were at least two little pieces he couldn't get out with only his fingers, and that hurt.

He decided to move a little and got off the counter to go water some plants.

When he was halfway into watering the fourth plant, the door opened.

He smiled his usual 'florist' smile to greet the new customer before he even turned his face to look at the newcomer. "Ohayo gozaimasu! Can I help yo- whaa!! What the hell are you doing here!?"

Schuldig shrugged. "I said I'd come to bring Nagi's stuff today." He said nonchalantly.

Ken looked at him suspiciously. "You don't fool me. You're up to no good." He took a few steps towards him. "I think," he eyed his red hair, now tied in a ponytail but still wearing the infamous yellow bandana and the black tee shirt, jeans and black boots the redhead was wearing "you're into some weird plan to make Omi trust you, and perhaps he believes you, but I'm not that naïve!"

The German almost sweatdroaped. "And you came to that conclusion just because I'm wearing a pair of jeans and a tee shirt? Your intelligence dazzles me." He grinned broadly, he couldn't help it, Ken was just too cute sometimes.

The brunette's temper flared up. "B-b-but who the hell do you think you are!! Do you think you have the right to come here and insult me?!!"

Schuldig decided to push him a little further to see what he did. "I think I have the right to do whatever I please." He said on his Schwarz bastard mode.

Ken stepped backwards, lifting the hose menacingly. He winced though when he planted his right foot on the floor again, the glass hurting him. "K'so.." He cursed, forgetting about the telepath for a moment.

He came back to his senses when a hand touched his shoulder hesitantly. He looked up at Schuldig's worried face. "Nani?"

"Daijobu?" he asked softly "What happened to your foot?"

"It's nothing.. just put my foot ont- don't touch me you bastard!!" He slapped the hand off his shoulder and tried to step backwards again, but the German was faster and grabbed his leg to get a better look at the injured foot.

"You're bleeding." He stated after taking out the slipper and inspected the wound. "You should use a needle to get that piece out." He couldn't help but caress that foot, relishing on the softness of Ken's skin as he brushed the tips of his fingers against the skin around the wound and wiping the little drops of blood.

He was absorted (and hoped that he wasn't showing any emotion).

Ken tried to kick until the other finally let go. "I said don't touch me!! I don't know what you're planning, but you act all weird!! First you enter my mind and start saying all those things a-and then that- you were HUGGING me and then you did that on the stairs and now you come here and TOUCH me AGAIN!!! What the hell are you trying to do!!?"

Schuldig just shrugged. He turned to pick the things he had left on the floor when he entered the flower shop and headed towards the stairs that communicated the flower shop with Weiss' house. He turned his head to look at Ken with an unreadable expression before he started to go upstairs. "If you come upstairs I can get it out your foot with a needle, you can ask your teammates if you don't want me to do it."

Ken blinked. He had no doubts now. That German psycho was up to no good. Offering his help? Definitively, something was very wrong there.

.::.::.::.::.

Youji got out of the bathroom all happy and gorgeous to find himself face to face with Omi. "Ne, chibi! I wanted to talk with yo-"

"Stop playing with Ken-kun." He said seriously.

"Nani?" the elder blonde was surprised at the kid's bluntness.

"C'mon Youji-kun, don't tell me you haven't noticed yet that Ken-kun's in love with you! He doesn't want to admit it, but it's very obvious! I thought you knew, but in case you didn't, now you do, SO stop playing with him and flirting because it hurts Ken-kun!!"

Youji stared at him open-mouthed for a few long seconds and then started to laugh. Of course, the chibi had been so worried about Nagi's situation that he hadn't even noticed about him and Ken and their fight last night. There was nothing funny about it, but he laughed so hard that his eyes started to water.

"What's so funny?! Are you laughing at Ken-kun's feelings?"

The playboy tried to compose himself. "It's not that chibi, it's just that Ken and I've been together for a long time!! And you thought I was mocking hi- oii!!" he whined when Omi tugged painfully at his ear.

"And why didn't you tell me!!" he demanded to know.

"Because I couldn't!" he tried to defend himself, though he knew he had nothing convincing to say.

"Eto… Konnichiwa Omi…"

"Schuldig!" He let go of the blonde's ear and smiled brightly at the redhead. "Nagi-kun and I were waiting for you!! Did you bring all his things?" he obviously was wondering if all Nagi had were the things Schuldig had brought upstairs.

The redhead shook his head. "There is more on the car."

Omi nodded. "Well, you can go see Nagi then, you know where my bedroom is."

Schuldig headed towards the younger blonde's bedroom silently after giving Youji a weird look.

"Now this reminds me that you have a lot to explain."

.::.::.::.::.

"Neu!! Where is the disc? I have all the info we need! I found Prodigy!"

"Where's him Tot?"

"He's under the protection of another assassins group. Do you know Weiss?"

"Yeah, they're Takatori Shuuichi's best group."

"Right Schoen. It's not going to be easy to get him."

"It can't be that hard Tot. We can defeat them as we've defeated lots of groups before."

"You're wrong Neu, this group is nearly as strong as Schwarz is, so this will not be easy."

"Whatever you say.. When are we going to kill them?"

"We'll act tomorrow night. Weiss'll go on a mission, so Nagi will be alone and ready for us to get and bring him to Takatori's building."

"Then let's get everything ready."

Tsu zu ku…

Finally! Chapter 12 is all done (again *sighs*)! I'm sorry it took me so long to rewrite this after the computer died, BUT it was a very long chapter and I've done this slowly, trying to write as correctly as possible.

The truth is that I hurried up to make a big update (that at the end it's only this fic, "Cats in the Cradle" and "My Revenge". It's been impossible to finish the new chapters for "Patience", "Lies Bleeding In My Arms" and "Mrs. Hikada", that have only 1000something words each one. *sighs*) I wanted to have ready for June 29th since it was my birthday and wanted to give something to all the people who reads me (for example I'm impressed that it's more than 200 people per chapter with this fic) as a way to saying thanks and chapeau to all of ya *claps*. Sadly, my internet went crazy the day 28 (why does the internet and my computer die when I need them the most?) so I couldn't make the update when I wanted and am doing this nearly a week later.

Anyway, what do you think of this chapter? I promised some action, but at the end I left it for next chapter. Just hope some day I write what I promise *sighs*.

So, in next chapter we'll have Omi, Nagi, Youji and Ken watching 'The Raven', Farfie's explanations of why Brad should hurt God a little, Schreint will appear AND, I don't dare promise this, but if I'm inspired enough and it's not taking me too long to write the chapter, it could happen that Schuldig had a moment of 'closeness' (just to give it a name) with Ken. Can't promise anything though.

What I can promise is that it won't take me too long since I'm inspired with this fic lately and have already started to write chapter 13.

Oi… will you leave me a comment with your opinions, criticism, death threats or just "Hello, read you fic"? Whatever you wanna say it's gladly accepted and will help me write faster and not get blocked.

Hasta luego!